Inspired by Global South practices such as Gambiarra (Brazil), Technological Disobedience (Cuba), and Jugaad (India), the Gambarra workshop aims to foster public understanding of technology's role in the climate crisis. This playful workshop invites participants to engage in hands-on critical making by reimaging the perceived functions of found objects and e-waste, their material properties, and socioenvironmental impact. This hands-on workshop introduces the concepts of resilience as futurism and graceful degradation through Gambiarra, a unique approach to creative problem-solving with limited resources. It aims to challenge participants' understanding of “openness” and “renewal” in resource-constrained environments and inspire them to engage with community-driven new media art. Drawing on Paulo Freire’s “Culture Circles,” the workshop fosters an appreciation for open-source processes and planetary ecology through non-Eurocentric knowledge systems and Global South design practices. It seeks to broaden appreciation for diverse logics, encouraging cross-pollination of ideas on complex system-level challenges from post-colonial, decentralized, and critical perspectives. To kick off the workshop, we will explore Gambiarra’s cultural significance and its alignment with new media art and tool-making practices, promoting creative solutions within material constraints. A central activity involves co-creating a community repair station, inspired by neighborhood free libraries and communal fridges. Using a bespoke framework, we will lead the participants to reimagine the concept of collective infrastructure and build the custom tools to inhabit it. Through knowledge sharing and co-creation, participants will fix, sort, and creatively upcycle discarded materials, while being exposed to the social and environmental byproducts of technology.